“I’m glad” Hizashi uttered as a polite smile showed on his face but to Kazuo it looked more devilish than actually soft.
‘What the fuck? A Hyuga smiling? Did he catch me in some sort of trap or the like?” Kazuo thought as he looked at Hizashi, his eyes slightly widening before his face returned to the same polite expression that he had held since the start of the meeting.
“In any case, I’ll leave everything up to you patriarch,” Kazuo said as he got up slowly from his seat.
Hizashi gave a soft nod in reply as he similarly got up from his seated position and started walking with Kazuo.
“You will likely get married to someone from the main branch, however even in that case, your children will still get the seal,” Hizashi added as the two walked outside of the manor, stopping as they arrived at the perimeter of the Branch head’s manor.
“That is quite alright though I hope you can tell them that they shouldn't be expecting any children for quite a while, at least until I’m in my twenties,” Kazuo replied with a small chuckle.
“All right, well then we part ways here Kazuo, I’ll send a message for when you’re required to come again and meet your bride,” Hizashi replied, his face having already switched back to his usual stoic stone-like facade.
“No problem, until next time Patriarch-sama,” Kazuo replied as he gave the man an almost ninety-degree bow, much lower than when he had met him, after all the circumstances had changed completely in a matter of minutes as well.
Kazuo had now almost completely joined the Hyuga Clan, after he married the woman he would similarly be given the Hyuga name.
Kazuo was quickly given an escort to guide him to the exit of the clan district.
Walking through the clan grounds Kazuo looked around much more carefully.
This would be another battlefield that he would be battling in soon enough.
‘Clan Politics, Though I’ll likely be excluded from most if not everything that happens in the clan, I’ll still most likely be used as soon as my power and value increases enough.’ Kazuo thought as he finally passed through the large Japanese gate once more and arrived outside of the Hyuga Clan Grounds.
‘I’ll also have to stop the death of Hizashi Hyuga, my main supporter of sorts at the moment is the Branch Family, I need to keep them on my side if I don't have enough support then those bastards from the main family would probably sell me out for a reward from Danzo.’ Kazuo thought as he continued walking through the village towards his final destination for the day.
A broken-down apartment.
Arriving at the apartment only to find his kunai trap launched and his room completely ransacked wasn’t a good experience in the least.
Releasing a frustrated sigh, Kazuo simply walked toward his even more broken-down bed and laid down, thankfully the cushion was thick enough that the wood that had pierced into the mattress hadn’t managed to create any discomfort to his back.
Closing his eyes, Kazuo’s hands clenched.
He felt like killing someone.
Hours passed and soon enough it was a new day, Kazuo as always woke up early and completed his daily exercise whilst increasing the pressure from the seals slightly.
Around an hour and a half later after he completed his daily morning routine, Kazuo headed out of the apartment, as soon as he did, he was met with a new face.
“You bastard, what did you do to the apartment!!” An old man with a hunched back stood in front of him, screaming his ears off.
‘...’ Kazuo simply stared at the man as he continued screaming for what felt like an hour.
“Are you done?” Kazuo asked as he lowered himself so that he could whisper in the man's ear.
Even though Kazuo was thirteen, he was abnormally large for a leaf shinobi, his stature already put him on the list of the tallest shinobi that the leaf had already produced.
For a moment, the old man considered continuing his rant however those thoughts were interrupted almost immediately by a cold metallic object pressing against his neck.
“Do you think I wouldn’t know if it was you who did this to the apartment?” Kazuo asked, his voice sounding so cold that it made the old man feel as if he had been thrown into the cold ocean during the winter.
“How..” The man uttered as his body started shaking as if it were a leaf in the wind.
“You do know who I am right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have tried this. You knew who I was and thought that I was loaded and a pushover right? You fucking piece of shit.” Kazuo said and pressed the kunai against the old man's throat even harder.
“Im sorry, please, please forgive me!” The old man stuttered out, his pants already changing color as the man pissed himself.
It was at this moment that Kazuo released a sigh and pushed the old man away, causing him to drop on the floor shaking.
“Fix the room by tomorrow morning, a new bed and everything or just give me a different well well-maintained room. I don't care how you do it.” Kazuo said before he disappeared in an instant only leaving a couple of tree leaves in his wake.
It was only seconds later that he reappeared again, hundreds of meters away, already in an entirely different district of the hidden leaf.
He now stood in front of his Sensei’s house.
He could already hear the sound of boiling water from the inside as well as Kushina practically screaming about something.
“Guess the sealing went well,” Kazuo muttered as he knocked on the door.
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